Flight Director Set for Interviews as Shuttle Countdown Starts

As the next space shuttle launch countdown begins, International Space Station
Flight Director Annette Hasbrook will be available for satellite interviews
from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. CDT, Wednesday, May 28.

Hasbrook will lead NASA's Mission Control during shuttle Discovery's upcoming
flight to the station. A 1985 University of Notre Dame graduate, she worked
for several years with space shuttle payloads and space station assembly and
checkout operations before her selection as a flight director in 2000.

Discovery is targeted to launch at 4:02 p.m. CDT, Saturday, May 31, from
NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla. The 14-day mission is the second of three
flights to launch components of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kibo
laboratory.

To participate in the interviews, media should contact Michael Hare at
281-483-8631 before 2 p.m., Tuesday, May 27. B-roll of preparations for the
mission will be broadcast starting at 5:30 a.m., immediately prior to the
interviews.

The NASA Television Live Interview Media Outlet channel will be used for the
interviews. The channel is a digital satellite C-band downlink by uplink
provider Americom. It is on satellite AMC 6, transponder 5C, located at 72
degrees west, downlink frequency 3785.5 Mhz based on a standard C-band 5150
Mhz L.O., vertical polarity, FEO is 3/4, data rate is 6.00 Mhz, symbol rate is
4.3404 Mbaud, transmission DVB, minimum Eb/N0 is 6.0 dB. The interviews also
will be broadcast live on NASA TV. For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and
scheduling information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For STS-124 crew and mission information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle

CONTACT: Katherine Trinidad of NASA's Headquarters, Washington,
+1-202-358-3749, katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov, or James Hartsfield of NASA's
Johnson Space Center, Houston, +1-281-483-5111, james.a.hartsfield@nasa.gov

/PRNewswire-USNewswire -- May 20/

SOURCE NASA